 | James Russell Lowell - 1890 - 410 Seiten
...since no man talks any kind of verse in real life. But the argument for rhyme is of another kind. " I am satisfied if it cause delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesy [he should have said means} ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
 | John Dryden - 1882 - 526 Seiten
...is a problem which is not demonstrable of either side : It is enough for me, that lie acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if...cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the i>n1yt end of I poesy : Instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1893 - 280 Seiten
...teaching." Dryden was something of a heretic when he ventured to say, " I am satisfied if " verse " cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy." It may seem strange that the view of poetry as primarily didactic, a view which might be deemed prosaic,... | |
 | John Dryden - 1898 - 224 Seiten
...terminis, in the face of three hun3odred persons. of either side: 'tis enough for me that he acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose: for if all...satisfied, if it cause delight: for delight is the chief, 5 if not the only, end of poesy: instruction can be admitted but in the second place; for poesy only... | |
 | 1898 - 584 Seiten
...is still with us, despite Aristotle and Swift, and despite Dryden with his ' I am satisfied if verse cause delight ; for delight ' is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy.' We know the length to which Mr. Matthew Arnold carried the preAristotelian doctrine. Aristotle would... | |
 | Joel Elias Spingarn - 1899 - 352 Seiten
...the sanest of English critics, John Dryden (1668), has said of verse, " I am satisfied if it caused delight, for delight is the chief if not the only end of poesie ; instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesie only instructs as it delights."... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 420 Seiten
...plays, is a problem which is not demonstrable of either side : 'tis enough for me, that he acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need 25 to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900 - 412 Seiten
...plays, is a problem which is not demonstrable of either side : 'tis enough for me, that he acknowledges he had rather read good verse than prose : for if...enemies of verse will confess as much, I shall not need 25 to prove that it is natural. I am satisfied if it cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1901 - 396 Seiten
...insist on the application of this test, still retained it. Dryden could write, " I am satisfied if verse cause delight, for delight is the chief, if not the only end, of poesy " ; but in adding " instruction can be admitted but in the second place, for poesy only instructs as... | |
 | John Dryden - 1903 - 222 Seiten
...delightful teaching.' Dryden was something of a heretic when he ventured to say, ' I am satisfied if verse cause delight ; for delight is the chief, if not the only, end of poesy.' It may seem strange that the view of poetry as primarily didactic, a view which might be deemed prosaic,... | |
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I am satisfied, if it cause delight: for delight is the\ chief, if not the only, end of poesy : instruction can / be admitted but in the second place ; for poesy only / instructs as it delights. 
